Re: [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 1, 2007, 19:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20070201191323.GA18608@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702011231300.3021@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

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> The work in progress to enable separate reflog for HEAD will make it
> independent from reflog of any branch HEAD might be pointing to. In
> the mean time disallow HEAD@{...} until that work is completed. Otherwise
> people might get used to the current behavior which makes HEAD@{...} an
> alias for <current_branch>@{...} which won't be the case later.

I happen to really like the fact that HEAD@{...} is an alias for <current_branch>@{...}.

But now that HEAD will soon be getting its own reflog, I guess I better relearn how to type <current_branch>. :-)

-- 
Shawn.

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